Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Retrospective: 2007 and the 1970s

The organisers of the Australian Belly Dance Star competition have been pretty slack - I can't find any information at all about how it went or who won. While looking around for that crucial info, though, I found a gallery on AOL's website for the 2007 Miss Belly Dance Hungary competition. For copyright reasons I can't provide any images here, but it looks like a good time was had by all. I particularly like image 5 (the woman in the lime green costume leaping in the air. Note legs of bod otherwise obscured by the TV).

So we'll have to make do with some out-of-rights images from a pair of 1970s Lebanese albums unearthed by blogger Scratchy Buckles. And I think you'll agree, it's a pretty fantastic compromise: